Feast at the WAG

Feast at the Winnipeg Art Gallery examines the role food and feasting play in our lives. How does one extol the virtues of a fine glass of wine, a bag of greasy French fries from the local chip truck? Feast is a unique and tantalizing exhibition featuring a smorgasbord of approximately 30 works from the Gallery’s permanent collection that explores a variety of fascinating issues and ideas surrounding food and the daily act of eating.

 The works in this exhibition, curated by the WAG’s Art Educators, run the gamut from decorative ceramic plates to drawings and photographs to paintings and cutlery.  

 Since it’s all about food, there’s even a recipe swap! Visitors are invited to bring along their favourite recipe and drop it in the recipe box to share with others. They are then welcome to sit down, check out the other recipes, and copy out some exciting new ones. Recipes will also be shared online on the WAG’s blog.

Feast continues at the WAG until March 25, 2012.

Run away to the circus

You don’t have to run away from home to join this circus! The Circus! Science Under the Big Top exhibit demystifies the daring and death-defying feats of the greatest show on earth, and puts you in the centre of the action. The exhibit opens at The Manitoba Museum (Alloway Hall) on Friday, October 7th.

Test your talents with tons of interactive exhibits, including:

• High Wire, an actual steel cable suspended 2.7 metres in the air
• Elastic Acrobatics, the famous flying trapeze!
• Circus Sideshow, where you can discover the secrets of the Sword Swallower & the Mighty Atom
• The Human Cannonball, where you can shoot a projectile out of a cannon to hit a target

You can also…

• Become a Circus Musician. Match music and sound effects to video footage and explore the effect of sound on the limbic system of the brain.
• Dress up and make-believe in the Costume Area.
• Discover the mathematics and physics of juggling-and amaze your friends.
• Learn about the secret languages of animals in our Animal Communications exhibit.

The Manitoba Museum will present Circus! Science Under the Big Top from October 7th until April 9th.